Re: [Avid-L2] Re:Media Composer with DX hardware

Craig, I'll give you a lift.

You should experience performance gains when capturing, rendering and
using DNXHD media. Also when mixing various codecs in an open timeline
with DNXHD. Simo HDSDI and analog out, plus downconvert is a plus.

Multistream DNXHD playback would see the biggest improvement, but there
may be other advantages with 3D or dual-link capture or other future
improvements, down the road.

Dood,..stop hitchhiking. Ask a reseller for a test drive.

RT

Craig Leake wrote:

>
>
> May I hitchhike on your question?
>
> After months of experimenting with MC software, I was about to buy for me
> and my students a MojoDX box, thinking that the NitrisDX would have no
> added
> value for our projects, since we work entirely from P2 files (in DVCProHD
> and AVC-I 100) and use no tape decks. But we do want the ability to
> edit the
> highest quality high-def video and export it to a format for theatrical
> screenings or HD broadcast. So I¹ve been reading the Avid website and
> talking with Avid sales people. I¹m still not able to answer this
> question:
>
> If we plan to work only with file-based media, creating no media
> digitizing
> from tape, is there any advantage to buying the NitrisDX box over the
> MojoDX? Leaving aside differences in the computers, does Nitris
> provide any
> increase in responsiveness that one would notice during editing? Does it
> allow playing more effects in real time, or access to higher levels of
> DNxHD
> than Mojo does? In other words, does Nitris offer any benefits other than
> the ability to input and output analogue sources?
>
> Below is the one-year-old computer we¹re using for MCS v4.02:
>
> Mac Pro 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
> OSX 10.5.7
> Memory 8 GB
> Graphics Card NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600
> Two 30-inch Apple Cinema monitors
> Apple RAID card, 4 1TB internal hard drives
>
> Thank you for your advice and counsel.
>
> Craig Leake
> Associate Professor/Documentary Producer
> The University of Memphis
> 143 Theatre Communication Building
> Memphis, TN 38152
> (901) 678-3174 phone
> (310) 720-2490 cell
> craig.leake@memphis.edu <mailto:craig.leake%40memphis.edu>
>
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